Palliative Care and Hospice Care Share the Common Goal of Enhancing the Quality of Life for Individuals with Severe Illnesses
Received Date: Mar 27, 2023 / Accepted Date: Apr 22, 2023 / Published Date: Apr 24, 2023
Abstract
While both palliative care and hospice care aim to improve the quality of life for patients with serious illnesses, palliative care can be provided at any stage of an illness and is focused on addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient and their family. Hospice care, on the other hand, is focused on providing comfort and support to patients who are in the last stages of a terminal illness and is typically provided when curative treatment is no longer effective.
Citation: Denis C (2023) Palliative Care and Hospice Care Share the CommonGoal of Enhancing the Quality of Life for Individuals with Severe Illnesses. J PalliatCare Med 13: 515. Doi: 10.4172/2165-7386.1000515
Copyright: © 2023 Denis C. This is an open-access article distributed under theterms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricteduse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author andsource are credited.
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